Light and lights E. Kubald

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The lights and lighting E. Kubald KG was a manufacturer of street lamps and other lighting fixtures . The headquarters of the company, which was temporarily run as a limited partnership , was the capital of Lower Saxony, Hanover , while production took place in the Poggenhagen plant near Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Hanover region . Founded in the 1930s and until the beginning of the 21st century manufacturing company had temporarily internationally around 1,500 employees.

history

Kubald lamp in front of the Waterloo Column in Hanover;
Watercolor from 1969 by Heinz Baumgarte on the subway construction at Waterlooplatz

The company's founder, Karl-Heinz Kubald, who was still registered as a commercial employee according to the city of Hanover's address book from 1934 and resided at - then - Fröbelstraße 6 in the Hanoverian district of Linden-Nord , opened his business in Hanover in the same year before he At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, production was relocated to Poggenhagen in the Neustädter Land . This was accompanied by the decisive step from wholesaling electrical goods to a producer of lighting equipment, for example for illuminated advertising .

On a site in the best location between the village of Poggenhagen and the Leine , between Poggenhagener Strasse and the Leinewiesen, Kubald and his family resided in an imposing villa with outbuildings, around which more and more and larger halls and workshops, some close together were erected.

In the post-war period, Kubald, who had his administrative headquarters around 1955 at Maschstrasse 13 in the southern part of the Lower Saxony state capital, advertised his specialty "Light and Luminaires" with a 1950s- style logo "L + L". His products included street lights and lighting fixtures typical of the time “for all types of fluorescent lamps ”, waterproof petrol station lighting and entrance bollards , as well as services such as the creation of complete industrial lighting systems. In addition, the manufacturing in Poggenhagen company mid-1950s applied over an annotated image Hanoverian city plan of Bollmann Playing cards publishing including his sodium lamps and fluorescent luminaires .

After German reunification , the company built what was also the last of the Kubald production halls in 1993 with an area of ​​almost 6000 square meters on Kubaldallee.

Also in the 1990s, as a result of the end of the Cold War , the company was able to expand to Eastern Europe on a previously unimaginable scale in order to serve the new, promising markets there. At the height of the company's history, the international company produced at five locations for global players such as mineral oil dealers and the fast -food restaurants of a fast-food chain. Corporate customers such as McDonald’s , Esso or Shell had their neon signs produced by Kunald .

But presumably Alexander Kubald, who had headed the company for the past three decades, took over. According to unofficial estimates, the company had around 1,500 employees under contract in 61 countries in 2014, including Poland , Russia , Turkey and Brazil , but in the same year only around 100 people were employed at the main plant in Poggenhagen. In February 2014, rumors about serious economic problems of the company that was last run as a GmbH hardened .

After around ten years of losses in the balance sheets and a drop in prices of up to 50 percent for the products with significantly cheaper and not inferior quality goods, for example from competitors in Turkey , company boss Alexander Kubald had to file for bankruptcy in June 2014 . As a result, production was stopped after 79 years, the operating and office equipment was auctioned to satisfy the creditors and the entire workforce was laid off.

Years later, during the visit by possible commercial re-users of the five hectare former Kubald site in Poggenhagen, the use of the Kubald villa was still unclear in 2017. A conversion to rental apartments or commercial spaces was considered.

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literature

  • Light and lights - E. Kubald KG , in Edfried Bühler, Herbert Droste, Hans Georg Gmelin, Hans-Günter Peters, Horst Rode, Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Diedrich Saalfeld : home chronicles of the district of Hanover (= home chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal territory , Volume 49, 1st edition), Cologne: Archive for Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH, 1980, pp. 442–447

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o. V .: Kubald lights - a term , in Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on the planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 ( = Monographs of the Building Industry , Volume 23), Vol. 1, ed. from the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, [in the business section without page number]
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Dirk von Werder, vw: Nachrichten / Neustadt / Poggenhagen: Problem case 1 is off the table ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from August 18, 2017, last accessed on July 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Compare the address book from 1934, Part I: Inhabitants and companies sorted by name , p. 256 as a digital copy on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Fröbelstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 85
  5. ↑ a b c d e Benjamin Gleue: Nachrichten / Poggenhagen / Von der Kubald GmbH the memory remains ... , article on the HAZ website from August 2, 2014, last accessed on July 11, 2018
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Maschstrasse , in ders .: The street names ... , p. 170
  7. ↑ Horst Reichert, Karl Ludwig Graeger ( arrangement ): Kubald-Leuchten , in Hanover (= picture city map by Hermann Bollmann , No. 13), with prefaces by Christian Kuhlemann ( IHK Hanover ), Wilhelm Weber and Karl Wiechert (state capital Hanover) as well Gustav Böhme ( Chamber of Crafts Hanover ), 1st edition 1–30 thousand, Braunschweig: Bollmann-Bildkarten-Verlag, 1955, p. 16
  8. ↑ a b c Susanne Döpke: Nachrichten / Poggenhagen / Kubald: "Insolvency was not my intention" ... , article on the HAZ website from May 25, 2014, last accessed on July 11, 2018


Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 50.2 ″  E